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transHiya Folks!
I just joined the Transgender group. My handle is dm_diary, my name is Dave, I'm a philosopher, middle-aged, tg lesbian, non-passing and "other-abled". Seeing as how I don't even try to pass, maybe I should call myself a gender queer? Whatever... I'm a woman, what others call me doesn't matter so much!
Its taken me 15+ years to get the medico's to admit I'm trans. But, things ARE getting better, folks! More people are getting to be more accepting, it just that it takes SO freaking long!
I see a lot of postings where people are decrying the fact that so many people are using labels. Well, personally, the only times a label bothers me is when they get it wrong! I'd give anything to be seen and accepted as "just" a female human being... but when I look in a mirror, I can understand others confusion! LOL - I'm expecting it and the cognitive still dissonance shakes me up, I can just imagine what's going through their skulls!
I think people use labels more as a personal shortcut than for any other reason. Consider human evolution, if cave dwellers had stopped to consider every event, WE wouldn't be here because THEY would have been lion food! So, the way I see it, its kinda like living under the Bush administration... it sucks, but we're stuck with it, so... you do your best to survive it... and never stop trying to change it!
Anyway... Hiya!
PS - Anyone notice that "transgender" comes up on Spell Check as being spelled incorrectly? Just sayin! :)
I just joined the Transgender group. My handle is dm_diary, my name is Dave, I'm a philosopher, middle-aged, tg lesbian, non-passing and "other-abled". Seeing as how I don't even try to pass, maybe I should call myself a gender queer? Whatever... I'm a woman, what others call me doesn't matter so much!
Its taken me 15+ years to get the medico's to admit I'm trans. But, things ARE getting better, folks! More people are getting to be more accepting, it just that it takes SO freaking long!
I see a lot of postings where people are decrying the fact that so many people are using labels. Well, personally, the only times a label bothers me is when they get it wrong! I'd give anything to be seen and accepted as "just" a female human being... but when I look in a mirror, I can understand others confusion! LOL - I'm expecting it and the cognitive still dissonance shakes me up, I can just imagine what's going through their skulls!
I think people use labels more as a personal shortcut than for any other reason. Consider human evolution, if cave dwellers had stopped to consider every event, WE wouldn't be here because THEY would have been lion food! So, the way I see it, its kinda like living under the Bush administration... it sucks, but we're stuck with it, so... you do your best to survive it... and never stop trying to change it!
Anyway... Hiya!
PS - Anyone notice that "transgender" comes up on Spell Check as being spelled incorrectly? Just sayin! :)
